13.
Go From Archaic to
Lean
 Do not automate a bad
process
 Focus on value
 Understand you business
environment
 Understand you business
systems
 Understand your cross-
functional relationships
 Do not just focus on a few
tasks look at the entire
enterprise

28.
BIM Implementers- Take Political Advice from
Niccolo Machiavelli
“ There is nothing more difficult to
take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead
in the introduction of a new
order of things.”
From The Prince

36.
Project Data Evaluation
 How is data entered ?
 Does data sit in a silo ?
 Analyze where there are
data “overlaps”
 Examine what data is not
electronic & whether it can
digitized
 Where is data stored ?
Multiple locations ?
 Evaluate how data is
transmitted and in what
format

44.
BIM Implementation-Project Level Needs
Assessment
 Link project risks or project
performance needs to
project business strategy
 Identify knowledge skills
and abilities needed for
project team members to
perform their tasks
 Identify where the
“knowledge gaps” are of
project team members

50.
Model Level of Detail Range
Fabrication/Shop
Drawing-level of
detail needed by
subcontractors
Design
for fabrication
Development-
and installation
Quantities can be
extracted but not
enough detail to
build from
Conceptual Level-
Conceptual
estimating value
only

84.
Constructability Review
 Determines whether a design
can be built or not
 Determines how a design will
be built
 Design impact to cost &
schedule
 “Big Room” -take advantage
of high interactive technology
 Co-located or multi-located
team
 Manage comments,
responsibility & resolution

103.
Clash Detection-Best Practices
 Develop workflow for clash
detection that address:
 How clashes are found
 What type the are
 How they are tracked
 How they are resolved
 Large amount of clashes
 Separate false clashes prior to
assigning responsibility
 Be methodical in determining
what type of clash test are
needed
 Clash data can be exported via
XML

112.
What the Prophets Are Saying: Barry Lepatner,
Author and Construction Attorney
“The change that lies just
ahead will threaten long-
established firms, careers and
institutions. No one can hide
from it.”
From: Broken Buildings, Busted
Budgets-How to Fix America’s Trillion-
Dollar Construction Industry

113.
What the Prophets Are Saying: Alvin Toffler,
Author & Futurist
“the capture of integrated
knowledge in an organized
way should drive planning.”
From Future Shock

114.
What the Prophets Are Saying: Thomas
Friedman-Pulitzer Price Winning Columnist NY
Times
“…the impending use of the
latest technology, global
implementation of new
materials and building
systems, and long overdue
research and capital
investment will radically alter
construction in the next ten to
twenty years.”

115.
What the Prophets Are Saying: C. Eastman, P.
Teicholz, R. Sacks & K. Liston-AEC Industry
Scholars
“ …the next five years …. will see
the transition of BIM from an
early adoption technology to
accepted mainstream practice
….the greatest impact will be on
the individual practitioner, who
will need to learn to work,
design, engineer, or build with
BIM.”
From: BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information
Modeling

116.
What the Prophets Are Saying: Barry Lepatner,
Author and Construction Attorney
“This situation will not last, for
the costs have finally become
too high. Change will come,
mandated by law or the
marketplace. It will threaten
some. To others it will offer
only opportunity.”
From: Broken Buildings, Busted
Budgets-How to Fix America’s Trillion-
Dollar Construction Industry